Historian Emilie Raymond talked about her book, [From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics], published by University Press of Kentucky. She described Charlton Heston's movie ...

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In the opening lines of Charlton Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon, the biographer Marc Eliot references the notorious moment when Heston, the movie-star-turned-NRA president, thundered that the ...

Just last week, that big Golden Gate up yonder creaked open, and Charlton Heston was admitted to Movie Star Heaven. Naturally, he received a standing ovation from the ghosts of William S. Hart ...

Hollywood Flashback: Charlton Heston’s “Cold Dead Hands” Speech Fired Up the NRA in 2000. The actor made his pronouncement at the group's 129th convention as he held up a Revolutionary War ...

It's a moment that washed-up comedians and humorless TV hosts still use when they're running low on material. On May 20, 2000, Charlton Heston lifted a revolutionary-era style flintlock long rifle ...

From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and American Politics Emilie Raymond, . . Univ. Press of Kentucky, $27.95 (376pp) ISBN 978-0-8131-2408-7 ...

Charlton Heston was a veteran and an Oscar-winning Hollywood icon best ... have resulted," author Emilie Raymond claimed in the 2006 book "From My Cold, Dead Hands: Charlton Heston and ...

Jim Carrey sends a loud and clear anti-gun message in his new song, “Cold Dead Hand.” In the accompanying Funny or Die music video, Carrey dresses up as former National Rifle Associatio… ...

Charlton Heston probably sealed his critical fate when, in 2000, he stood in front of the National Rifle Association, raised an antique musket over his head and intoned, “From my cold, dead ...